110 persons liked this page. ** A review of 25 achievements in environmental sciences, general ecology and aquatic ecology: functioning of ecosystems and environmental toxicology 5bio5.blogspot/2014/02/a-review-of-25-achievements-in.html 5bio5.blogspot/2013/03/achievements-in-environmental-sciences.html Key words: environmental, safety, ecology, ecosystems, water quality, pollution, purification, achievements, sciences, general ecology, aquatic, toxicology, filter-feeders, surfactants, Mytilus edulis, Crassostrea gigas, Biochemical Ecology, oysters, SDS, sodium dodecylsulfate, marine mussels, Triton X-100; TDTMA, Thalassiosira pseudonana, Synechococcus, Fagopyrum esculentum, Oryza sativa, ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators, The goal of this review is to provide a short summary of a series of innovative publications on environmental science and ecology [1-25]. The papers were authored by scientists of Moscow State University and their co-authors. The review is not a comprehensive analysis of this broad area but a summary of some selected examples which are useful both in advancing further research and in modernization of environmental education. The review is structured and the text is divided into short sections that are easy to read. 1. Biomachinery of ecosystems. In the insightful review paper [1], an innovative concept of ecosystem’s biomachinery (a new scientific term that was proposed and explained in detail by the author. According to the author of this paper [1], biomachinery means ecological mechanisms that include biological communities and biodiversity) which improves water quality. The innovative experimental data analysis, concepts, and generalizations in this article provide the fundamental elements of the new qualitative theory of biocontrol of water quality in a systematized form. The theory covers water self-purification in freshwater and marine ecosystems [1]. 5bio5.blogspot/2012/08/biocontrol-of-water-quality.html 2. Rare earth elements in biodetritus in an aquatic system. In 2010, a paper on using neutron activation analysis (NAA) to measure the concentrations of some chemical elements in the samples of detritus was published [2]. This paper is the first publication that reported the concentrations of a number of rare earth elements in biodetritus in an aquatic system [2]. Full text: ru.scribd/doc/114001532/ Abstract: scribd/doc/75098592 3. Innovative scientific terms (ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators). A paper on new concepts in ecology was published [3]. The paper explained the innovative scientific terms (ecological chemomediators, ecological chemoregulators) that were coined in 1986 in the book: S.A.Ostroumov ‘Introduction to Biochemical Ecology’ [3], translated into Polish and other languages and published by leading academic publishing houses in three countries. scribd/doc/63711272/; scribd/doc/73795942 4. New qualitative theory of biotic control of water quality. New fundamental theoretical issues of water sustainability, water safety and aquatic ecology were covered in a paper published in 2008. This article provides the fundamental elements of a new qualitative theory of biotic control (biocontrol) of water quality in a systematized form. The theory covers water self-purification in freshwater and marine ecosystems [4]. 5. Filtration of water by invertebrate organisms, filter-feeders. In 2006, an important series of experiments on ecotoxicology of detergents was published in the journal HYDROBIOLOGIA, (2006, Volume: 556, Pages: 381-386) by an international team of researchers. This was the first paper that reported the experiments that showed that all three main kinds of synthetic surfactants (detergent chemicals) slow down the filtration of water by marine organisms, filter-feeders (the bivalve mussels of the Atlantic Ocean, Mytilus edulis) [5]. scribd/doc/45958156 6. New theory of ecological self-purification of water. A paper that formulated an important ecological theory was published. This paper contains a detailed well-structured presentation of the author’s innovative and multifaceted conceptualization of how almost all aquatic organisms work together toward making water clear and clean. This paper [On the multifunctional role of the biota in the self-purification of aquatic ecosystems. - RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, 2005, 36 (6): 414-420] formulated a new theory of ecological self-purification of water [6].
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